The World God Only Knows

is a manga series written and illustrated by Tamiki Wakaki. The manga has been serialized in the Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine by Shogakukan since April 9, 2008, with individual chapters collected in thirteen tankobon volumes as of July 2011. The prototype version of the story was first featured as a one-shot on Weekly Shonen Sunday on its 2007 Issue 32 release, and was titled "Koishite!? Kami-sama!!". The 2010 Issue #19 of Weekly Shonen Sunday announced an anime adaptation had been green-lit, which premiered on October 6, 2010.